Successful Conficker arrested!

Worm Conficker that scandalize it can eventually arrested. After the fight for 5 minutes, the PC security researchers now find a way to detect the existence Conficker with a fast and easy way.

Attendance since the end of last year, has been invited Conficker attention because kepintarannya able to spread so menginfeksi 10 million PC users around the world. More worrying, Conficker to settle at this time only as detective in the computer without doing anything. That, this worm awaiting further instructions from the manufacturer Conficker on 1 April next. Whether the instruction, not one person who can foretell.

Parahnya again, for this there are only two ways to be able to detect the presence Conficker; and both are not easy. The first way is to detect traffic data from each computer in the network, which is very difficult for a company with a number of computers a lot. Second way is to scan the computer one by one, more and more ways that are not easy.

Fortunately only two days before April 1, Tillmann Werner Felix Leder and from the Honeynet Project found Conficker leave 'fingerprints' on each computer infected. Conficker change the code that the infected computer in a network, so that the process of detection can be done quickly and comprehensively to all the computers in the network. Thanks to the fingerprint, the other a researcher, Dan Kaminsky, successfully create special tools to detect Conficker details that you can tough it through the blog. Signature for Conficker has also been available on the network application scanner such as Nmap (open source), McAfee Foundstone Enterprise, and Nessus. So mumpung not 1 April, your network of clean Conficker!